Conflict simmers between daughter and mother about Ariel's decision not to attend Juilliard after all. The mystery of Ariel's sadness is the throughline for the story while Frank is involved in episodes with other town characters. And I, in my selfish innocence, allowed it. She forgot in an instant whatever was the source of her own suffering and she turned all her attention on me. "Frankie," she cried leaping from the bench. When Frank comes home a mess from mischief that got out of hand, he finds her sobbing at the piano, unaware that he is watching: Frank sees that she has been sneaking out of the house at night, but he promises not to tell. She is "the hope and consummation of mother's own unfilfilled longings," heading to Juilliard in the fall, dating the rich kid Karl Brandt, typing the memoir of Karl's uncle Emil, but always attentive to her little brothers. For example, Frank and his brother Jake "adore"(40) their older sister Ariel. Our affection for some characters deepens throughout the novel.
Though Krueger is author of the series featuring detective Cork O'Connor, and this novel won the mystery writers' "Edgar" award, the mystery of who did it is secondary to another kind of mystery of grace in adversity.
You always have been and you always will be" (196). You're my best friend in the whole world. Yet for me, more gripping than any dramatic reveal of a corpse was Frank's realization about his younger brother: "You're my best friend, Jake. In William Kent Krueger's novel Ordinary Grace, deaths by "accident, nature, suicide, and murder" befall a small Minnesota town during the summer of 1961 when the narrator was just 13 years old.
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